Impact
Shakespeare had great influence on culture throughout the world. His writing is still studied today. Shakespeare influenced literature and is looked up to for his great works. His plays are still being produced today, and made into movies.
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Comedy
Comedy , drama that aims to make its audience laugh, usually with a happy or amusing ending, as opposed to tragedy. Comedy is associated with humorous behavior, wordplay, pleasurable feeling, release of tension, and laughter, It generally follows a fixed pattern of theatrical surprises that leads to a sense of exhilaration in the spectator. Of all dramatic genres ,comedy is the most widely performed.
William shakespeare(1564-1616)
One of the most remarkable playwrights and poets the world has ever known , Shakespeare was known as the greatest dramatist and finest poet who has written in the English language.
Born: in Stratford-on-Avon Family: a burgher , a well-to-do glove maker Education: the grammar school( little Latin and less Greek) Marriage: Nov.26,1582 married with Anna Hathaway ( three children ) Experiences :holding horse worked for the London Theatre World actor playwright serve in the army death ; April 23, 1616, and died at the age of 52 .
Four Great Tragedies
the renaissance shakespeare
renaissanceFra bibliotekIntroduction
The period in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. During this period ,the classical arts and learning were discovered again and widely studied, so the term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of classical (Roman and Greek) arts and learning after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism, it also marked the beginning of bourgeois revolution.
Shakespeare's style
first plays were written in the conventional style of the day Soon, however, Shakespeare began to adapt the traditional styles to his own purpose Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter After Hamlet, Shakespeare varied his poetic style further, particularly in the more emotional passages of the late tragedies.
In the Renaissance period ,scholars and educators called themselves humanists and began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and they held their chief interest in man value and his environment and doings .So humanism became the keynote of the English Renaissance.
Works Accomplishments
37 plays two narrative poems 154 sonnets
The Three period of Literary career
1st :1590-1600 comedies 2nd :1601-1608 tragedies 3rd : 1609 -1612 histories